Theo Schoon: A Biography Museum collection print creating imagined industrial sites in

creating imagined industrial sites in a fantasy landscape

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1 Fairburn’s assessment was far from typical of the reception of Colin McCahon’s work at this time

which is enhanced by the close cropping of Bensemann’s figure

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Theo Schoon: A Biography Museum collection print creating imagined industrial sites inEmigr artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering, and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated and articulated in art, literature, music, and theater. The art he pioneered and promotedMaori rock drawings, the drawings of a psychiatric patient, Maori moko and kowhaiwhai, the abstract patterns of geothermal